【推荐1】阅读下面短文, 根据短文内容完成下面的句子。

Animals are people's friends, but many animals are in great danger, because the environment（环境）that they are living in has changed a lot. For example, their living areas have become smaller and smaller because of the development（发展）of cities and the large population. They don't have enough places to live in or enough food to eat. At the same time, men are trying to kill（杀戮）these animals to make more money or have their meat.

People should realise（意识到）how bad the situation is and must do something to protect the animals. We should stop the killing and build some nature parks to help animals live happily there. What's more, we should do something to make our world clean.

1. Animals are people's friends, but now they are _______________________.
2. The situation for the animals is bad. Their living areas are becoming _______________ and they don't have ______________ to eat.
3. What can we do to help the animals?
We should stop the killing, _______________ and ________________.

【推荐1】阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容，在文章后的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。

Blood donation, also called blood banking, is a wonderful thing to do. It is an easy and direct way to help the community. It helps to save lives and helps those who are in need of blood but poor or the heavy loss of blood during operations or in accidents.

You are able to give or donate blood every three or four months. Blood donation is not a big problem, but you need to keep a few points in mind.

Before donating blood, make sure that the ferrum（铁）level in your body is high enough and for that you should take a healthy diet（饮食）. After having a balanced diet you will feel strong and comfortable to donate blood. Then, you will not feel weak.

For a good blood flow（流动）in your body, drink at least 6-7 glasses of water every day. A day before and after giving blood, don’t drink wine. Do not smoke half an hour before giving blood.

When you are going for blood donation, be relaxed. During the blood donation activity, breathe deeply and try to calm yourself. Don’t join in some other activities.

When you donate blood, you are able to save someone’s life. Blood donation is very simple and fast, but you need to take care of yourself after donating blood. The following are a few tips that will help you.

Take a rest for 15 minutes after the donation. It helps you to feel relaxed.

Eat something and drink juice before leaving the blood donation centre. Make sure that you have meals after donating blood. If you want to smoke, you should wait for one hour after the process. Don’t do activities like driving right away.

Finally, take pride in yourself because you have done a great thing in helping to save someone’s life. Blood donation is a very important activity.

Blood donation
The     1     of blood donation	●Help the community. ●Help those people who     2     lots of blood. ●Give yourself a     3     of pride.
Before the donation	●Take a healthy diet for a     4     furrum level. ●Make sure you are in good     5     for blood donation. ●Drink at least 6-7 glasses of water daily for a good flow of blood. ●    6     drinking wine and smoking.
7     the donation	●Relax and take a     8     breath. ●Never take     9     in other activities.
After the donation	●Take a rest and have something before leaving. ●Don’t smoke     10     one hour later. ●Don’t join in some activities like driving.

【推荐2】The Great Wall of China is famous around the word, but not many foreign people know about the Grand Canal—a man-made waterway. It is also called Da Yunhe in China.

The Grand Canal is 1,700 kilometers long and some parts of it are more than 2,000 years old. It links (连接) the north of China with Hangzhou, a city in the southern part of the country. It’s the longest man-made waterway in the world.

People built it as a way to take grain (谷物) from China’s south to the north. In fact, it’s also a system (系统) of canals and rivers. It’s still an important part of the transport (运输) system in China.

A large number of boats use it every day to transport grain and many other things. Now China is doing new work on the Grand Canal. It is making parts of it deeper (深), so bigger boats can use it. The canal will also help to move water. There is a lot of rain in the south of the China, but not as much in the north. It will take water from the south to the north. The Grand Canal is much less famous than the Great Wall, and not many people visit it. But it’s possible to go on a travel along some of the oldest parts of the canal. Visitors can see beautiful parts of China that other visitors don’t see.

1,2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出第四段的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. The Grand Canal is the ________ waterway in the world.
2. ________ boats use the Grand Canal every day.
3. Why did people build the Grand Canal?   
______________________________________
4. ______________________________________
5. ______________________________________

【推荐1】How do you feel about your Chinese? Is it good or bad? If you think you are good at Chinese, you can take part in the competition named the "Chinese Characters Dictation Competition (中国汉字听写大会). The competition became popular among teenagers. Let's know something about it.

More and more computers and smart phones are used by teenagers. They spend too much time on the Internet in playing or chatting. They are used to sending messages by computers and smart phones. As a result, some teenagers forget how to write the Chinese Characters by hand. The teachers and parents are very worried about it. What can they do?

Not long ago, they found an interesting game called the Chinese Characters Dictation Competition. The program was similar to the American show "National Spelling Bee". In this program, middle school students competed among themselves and wrote down the Chinese Characters by dictation. Over two hundred competitors were from forty-six middle schools. The audiences(观众loved this new kind of competition, too. They tried to write down the Chinese Characters while the competitors were writing them. But they found it was also difficult for them to write down all the Chinese Characters.

Is it an interesting competition? Can you be the winner?

1-2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中划线句子翻译成汉语。
1. It was very hard for the competitors to ________ all the Chinese Characters.
2. In the USA, ________ was like the competition names the "Chinese Characters Dictation Competition".
3. Who can compete in "Chinese Characters Dictation Competition"?
____________________________
4. ____________________________
5. ____________________________

【推荐2】Hamsters (仓鼠) are animals. They look very cute. Lots of people like to have them as pets. They are very popular especially for children.

Hamsters are beautiful, and they are black, white, brown, red or a mix of those colours. Hamsters have tails, but their tails are very short. A hamster’s tail is only about one centimeter (厘米) long. Its tail is short, but it can help the hamster to keep balance (平衡).

Hamsters like eating fruit and nuts. Some people buy hamster at the pet shop. Hamsters have a funny eating habit. They like to store food in their cheeks (面颊). Please remember to give them much food. Then they can have enough food to store.

Hamsters are good pets because they are easy to be taken care of. They do not need a lot of rooms. Hamsters usually live in cages (笼子). They can do many things in the cages such as eating and exercising.

1. Lots of people like to have Hamsters as ________ because they look very cute.
2. Hamsters are ________ or a mix of those colours.
3. A hamster’s tail is short, but it can help the hamster to ________.
4. Hamsters like eating ________, and they like to store food in their cheeks.
5. Hamsters do not need a lot of rooms, so they usually live ________.

【推荐3】Every country (国家) has its favorite food. In some countries, people eat rice every day. ① _______ In Japan, people eat a lot of fish, and they eat a lot of rice, too. In Britain, the favorite food is fried fish and French fries. In America, people like hamburgers very much. And they like to have cold drinks. In Canada, people eat bread ② _______ butter (黄油) on it. In India, people like to eat hot food. Some people only eat fruit and vegetables. They don’t like to eat meat or fish. They think green food is good for them.

1. 选择恰当的句子填在①处。

A．They often eat it with meat, fish and vegetables.

B．People often buy their food from stores.

2. How many countries are mentioned (提及)?
________________________________________
3. 根据上下文在②处填入恰当的单词。
________________________________________
4. Why don’t people like to eat meat or fish?
________________________________________
5. 根据短文内容完成下列表格，每空一词。

Japanese	fish and ________
the British	Fried fish and ________ fries
________	hamburgers and cold drinks
Canadians	bread
Indians	________ food